Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more preoccupied with contrived presidential images than with actual looks. Some lofty thinkers even feel that the look of a President is of little significance. In reality, a leader's countenance and mien have always been of great moment to the led, and a President embodies an epic load of national symbolism. Externals have become ever more crucial since ubiquitous television has taken over as the main medium of campaigning. Today, as Daniel Boorstin notes in his book The Image, "our national politics has become a competition for images or between images, rather than between ideals...
...rationing is earlier on, before the supplies are gone. If an equitable, and not necessarily severe, program of rationing coupled with price controls were instituted it would achieve conservation without drastic inflationary effects. Rationing would spread the burden more evenly over all segments of society. Price increases put the load, as usual, on those least able to bear it. As for adverse political consequences, dollar a gallon gas isn't liable to win many votes, either...
...course, the Crimson's schedule will include some rigorous night-time practices at local watering holes and some other off-the-course drills in addition to the heavy load of matches. As Alexander details, "We'll be playing every morning, drinking beer around the pool in the afternoon and--well, after that we'll be pretty drained...
Junior Sue Harper is the team's only hurdler. Hunt says he expects her to carry the load successfully; but the lack of depth in this event will hurt his team...
About the toughest penalty in the bill would apply to hospitals that began juggling their patient load so that they were taking in higher-paying patients at the expense of lower-paying, or began discriminating against the poor or the elderly. These hospitals would lose their eligibility to collect from Medicare and Medicaid...